Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-04-22
fHls 10 IRBOB DAY.
The Exescisca ~ the nigh school MAKO IN
chief Pubnc Demonstration.

chief Pubnc DEMONSTRATION.
A great many people are quietly celebrat-
ing Arbor Day, to-day, by planting fruit trees
and vines In their yards aud gardens and
shade trees In front Of their reeidencea The
nurserymen have done very good business
for Q week past, and have disposed OF thou.
sands of trees to citizens Of the town and rural
districts.
The only public exercises In this city were
held ut 9 o'clock this afternoon In the girls
high school room, the pupils aud teachers Of
the boys high school being present and par.
ticipatipg In the exercises Many directors
and citizens were present
Following is the programme OF exercises
Reading and prayer, Dr. T.. f.. Hiebee
chorus spring Time Once Again, sullivan
chorus lnnisfAil. Phelps; quartetts for four
ger, Miss BERTHE Hest, Master Frank =. Loeb
and Prof. Carl Thorcahn, (members OF the
high school orchestra ana pupils OF Prot.
Thorbahn) }; chorus Soldiers Chorus, Faust,
Gounod chorus, There's . Wedding in the
Orchard, Dodge "Ihe Trees of the Bible"
Ivy Rev. Z. Elvin Houpt chorus Let Me
Dream Again, Sullivan chorus, Where Are
Now the Hopes Cherished? Bellini; recita.
ton, Natures Farewell, Mrs Hemans,
NssSror @ " HerSeft {. Milers' The % Palm rres, s
Mrs. HemAns, Laura +. kready; chorus,
Ehren on the Rhine, Hutchinson chorus,
Come to the Sea, Roberti; general remarks
chorus The Mahogany Tree, Campans
doxolosy, Praise God from Whom All Bless.
| ings Flow.
High school orchestra: Niolins, Misses
Edith Metzser, Berthe Best, Alice Fahnestock
and Masters Loeb, Apple, McCaskey, Reed,
| Welchans, Hurst, Herr and koring; flutes,
John A. Sprenger and Hiram d. McCsskey
clarionets, b. Wenditz and Thoe. Thorbahn
| bass vicl, william II. Coll. The music by
the schools was under direction of Prof Carl
| Matz. TIE orchestra under direction OF Prof.
Carl Thorbahn.
Rev. c. E. Houpt read q very pretty writ.
| ten address, on the Trees of the Bible. "
He took his hearers along with, in imsgins.
ton, and showe,. them the land OF Palestine
| ss 1t was q thousand years before the Chris
tian era, and be threaded its beautiful valleys,
| its rising hills and lofty mounts rs, described
| its picturesque scenery, and about its fertile
| fields, aud fruit trsss aud forests. He de-
scribed many OF these trees, among them the
aloes the lotus, the syca more, the plane
| trees, the dole palm, the apricot, peach and
| plum, the oleander, the locust, Abraham
oak, the white willow, W white poplar, the mul
| berry, lemon and the lofty cedsrs OF Lebsr o a
Many of these trees were symbolized a:
types CT human character, as were also tht
| lilies OF the valley, star OF Bethlehem, tht
| tulips, daisies aud other beautiful flower,
with which the hills and valleys wer,
| crowned. He described the Palestine c
to day as being in many respects
cesolate wilderness and gave IS a principa
reason therefore the cutting away Of th
woods and forests, which had resulted il
drying up the streams, wasting away III
soil, and preventing the growing Of crops
He held that Palestine might be renewe,
and again become land OF fertility by tn
planting Of trees and the sowing OF prope
: | seeds